Listening Challenge Person B

Listening: Round 1 Read the brief and begin the activity once your partner (Person A) is ready to start.

Brief • Read the paragraph below in your head while facing your partner.

• While you are doing this, Person A will be trying to read you a different text out loud.

• Be prepared to answer questions on either text.

Person B Text to read in your head: A football match is played by two teams, with each allowed no more than 11 players on the field at any one time, one of whom is a goalkeeper. A match is played in two 45-minute halves.

The game begins with the toss of a coin, and the winning captain decides which goal to defend or to take the first kick off.

All players must use their feet head or chest to play the ball.

Only the goalkeeper is allowed to use their hands, and only within their designated goal area.

The aim of the game is to score a goal, which is achieved by kicking or heading the ball into the opposition team's goal.

The team with the most goals wins.

Listening: Round 2 Read the brief and begin the activity once your partner (Person A) is ready to start.

Brief •

Read the paragraph out loud as normally as possible while facing your partner.

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While you are doing this, Person A will be trying to read a different text in their head.

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Afterwards, ask Person A some specific questions about the content in your text, and for any details of what they were reading!

Person B Text to read out loud: Nearly ten years had passed since the Dursleys had woken up to find their nephew on the front step, but Privet Drive had hardly changed at all. The sun rose on the same tidy front gardens and lit up the brass number four on the Dursleys' front door; it crept into their living room, which was almost exactly the same as it had been on the night when Mr. Dursley had seen that fateful news report about the owls. Only the photographs on the mantelpiece really showed how much time had passed.

Ten years ago, there had been lots of pictures of what looked like a large pink beach ball wearing different-coloured bonnets - but Dudley Dursley was no longer a baby, and now the photographs showed a large blond boy riding his first bicycle, on a carousel at the fair, playing a computer game with his father, being hugged and kissed by his mother. The room held no sign at all that another boy lived in the house, too.